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When Detective Inspector Greelie is called in to investigate what should have been an open and shut case, involving the rape of Kathryn O'Neal and the near-fatal stabbing of her sister by a local man from the village where the sisters are on holiday, he is presented with a problem that swiftly spirals out of control. With an old-fashioned Scottish preacher quoting the Book of Revelations, evidence of Satanic Circles and a murderous villain called McKenzie out to harm Kathryn, Greelie soon finds that normal police procedures are of very limited use when confronted with the age-old battle of ...

In Song of Empire, Book 2, Siian and his companions on the Merryweather, Seth, Y'leta and Fodar, set out to transform Xenon, which has regressed to a medieval way of life. They also have to devise a way of defeating the Federation, which has a space-going navy capable of suppressing colony planets whose technology is vastly superior to Xeon's. In their planning they can draw on the resources of their ship's artificial mind, the AM Kodin, but ultimately success will depend up on Siian's capabilities as a human/Guardian cross. One of their first tasks is to end the threat posed to the ...

The lead character in Song of Empire, Book 1, is Siian, a seventeen year old youth who, unbeknown to himself, is a genetic cross. His mother, Melissa, is herself the daughter of a relationship between a human and a Guardian. The latter are a purpose engineered variant of humans, designed to be perfect administrators and witnesses, observing and reporting on the governments of Earth’s many colonies across the galaxies. The ruling Council of Members on Earth is concerned to prevent human/Guardian cross breeding, to prevent contamination of the human gene pool. When the novel begins, Siian ...

Andromeda Bertram, who prefers to be called Andy, has spent her school days being uprooted every 18 months or so by her mother, Persephone. When the novel opens she has just been relocated once again, from a school in North Carolina, to a much rougher school in Yonkers, New York. She meets Jake, an Alpha shifter and discovers that she is twinned with one of the three original Erinyes, or Furies, and that the human world is also home to a host of magical types ...

A barrel-chested man, stripped to the waist, dragged a massive wooden door open at our approach. The door was set in a thirty-foot high wall that ran for several hundred yards. Inside we saw our first couple of wudra. Sin and I stood with our jaws hanging open. They were exactly like Chinese dragons, with gold-coloured scales except where lines of emerald green made shimmering patterns against the gold. Three men with hoses were spraying the wudra, both of which had their great, golden eyes with the vertical slit pupils, half-closed in bliss. The hoses played up and down their thirty-foot ...

The Realms Book picks up from where Book 2 left off, with Jude helping the CIA track down terrorists who are setting out to bomb a number of cities in Europe and the USA... A few minutes later all four of us were sitting at a table in the far corner of the cafeteria with trays of food in front of us. There were perhaps half a dozen CIA types in the room, mostly sitting alone, spaced out around some thirty tables. It was a big room. “Jees, Chris, how many people do you guys have in London?” I asked. He shrugged. “Don’t start thinking this whole building is CIA. We have liaison teams ...

Book Three begins with Andy, Jake, Sarah and Poloda meeting a Directorate agent, Frilian, in Rome. They aim to hunt down the mage, Gunnil Porjon, who bought one of the power artefacts crafted by the witch Melody, and is using it to gain politican power. The two Fury sisters, Alecto and Megaera, excited at being in Rome after so many centuries, decide to take a stroll to the Tiber, leaving chaos in their wake. The sorcerer Sothus has also obtained one of the artefacts and needs to be dealth with ...

Book 4 begins with Angel being presented in court to King Edward. During a visit back to her time, she is involved in stopping a dirty bomb plot in London. Use of the Time Door creates an energy surge that has NASA puzzled. Events lead to Angel revealing the existence of the alien she and the Clan are hosting, to the President of America. This part of her adventure ends with her and Duke Pendle setting off to journey down to London from York, and having to deal with an army blocking their way. ...The Duke gave instructions to his men to hold fast where they were. He and Angel walked their ...

In Book 6, Andy and Jake's friendship with President Simpson and his First Lady takes a strange turn when Elsie's researches go awry. Andy manages to get her mother interested in saving endangered species instead of endangering humanity, and she and Jake take on the task of hunting down and banishing the few remaining power objects.

Andy, Jake and Sarah continue their quest to find and banish the remaining power artefacts created by the witch, Melody. Queen Penelope becomes increasingly frustrated with President Simpson's foot-dragging as far as initiating meaningful measures to counteract Climate Change is concerned, and the Directorate Agent, Dirak, struggles to keep up with his freewheeling recruits.

The relationship between Andy and Jake culminates in their wedding, though they have little time to celebrate as the Directorate wants the power artifacts created by the witch Melody, destroyed as soon as possible. At the same time, Andy's Mom, Queen Persephone, is growing more determined to rein in what she sees as the destruction of the Earth by human greed and recklessness. Andy is having a hard time dissuading her mother from unleashing the modern equivalent of the Black Death to drastically reduce human population pressures on the planet.

In Book 3 Angel decides to use Ka's ability to open a door in time to travel back to 1062. Her aim is to stop the Norman invasion of England and to start the Industrial Revolution seven centuries early, hopefully in a less damaging way for the planet. ... Pausing at the brow of a hill, near the crossroad at Little Upton, the Duke was astonished to see what looked to be the solitary figure of a very tall girl standing on the bridge. His eyesight was not brilliant at a distance, though it was perfectly fine for close work, so he screwed up his eyes to try to bring the figure into better focus...

Book 5 in the series begins with a meeting between the US President, his key staff and Queen Persephone, Andy and Jake, which aims to defuse the tension between the parties. Andy manages to convince President Simpson that he and his Administration need to reassure Persephone that they are doing everything possible to combat runaway climate change. Matters are complicated when it becomes increasingly evident that the Russian President intends to invade Poland and the Ukraine, possibly triggering WW3. Simpson asks Andy to intervene. At the same time, Andy and Jake need to continue searching ...